Visualizing the Keynesian Endpoint

The other day AmeriCatalyst posted an excellent video of Kyle Bass’s keynote speech at their 2012 conference. He spoke lucidly about the “Keynesian Endpoint”, debt super-cycles, the Federal Reserve’s inability to move rates from 0% and the (unintuitive) interconnectedness of sovereign default and hyperinflation. Here we present an infographic plotting the development of these ideas and mechanisms from 1792 to the present day.